(For anyone needing to listen to their inner voice.) While at a dinner the other night, a close friend mentioned this blog. Someone else overheard and asked me what it's about. Until then, I wasn't quite sure. "Basically it's about the idea of listening to oneself - listening to our inner voice, which I would call the soul. It's about our inner dialogue. Though I write a lot about my own 'interior landscape', my goal isn't to keep a personal diary. I hope that by sharing some of my inner life, others will pay more attention to theirs - they'll take up a chat with their own soul, or hear something within they might otherwise ignore. I'm not opposed to chatting with others, it's just I think that place within us is severely neglected and holds great wisdom, creativity and solutions to challenges and real world problems. I think we're taught to look elsewhere for our answers - our parents, teachers, peers, religious institutions, leaders, doctors, therapists, experts and now even screens. We experience our lives from the outside in, instead of the otherway around. By the time we're adults, our inner voice is buried deep and it's not until mid-life that some of us will go searching it out. Many never will. I think great sufferring comes when we don't know how to look inward. It doesn't have to be that way. We could have more of a vocabulary to describe the soul - words that don't require a religious or psychologic framework. We could teach children and adults to trust that knowing part of themselves. We could even give tools to help access that source of power (not a dominating power, but a greatly needed superpower)..............Basically, I'm taking it upon myself to save the world, by excavating the soul - our greatest human resource...by bringing it into everyday language...........What do you like to do for fun?" Courtney A Brown To send this note to a friend:
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Ronan Brown
12/5/2016 01:51:18 am
I like to eat cake, though trying to save the frosting for last.
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